Events

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Upcoming Events

2024 Mar 29

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Sun Jun 23 2024 .
11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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2024 Mar 29

Joel Sanders, “From Stud to Stalled!: Inclusive Design through a Queer Lens”

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

In his talk, Joel Sanders will trace the evolution of his thinking about gender, human identity and space over the past twenty-five years from the publication of STUD: Architectures of Masculinity (1996), which examined the role that architecture plays in the construction of masculinity through a gay male lens, to recent projects like Stalled! Public Restrooms, created by JSA/MIXdesign, an inclusive design studio dedicated to considering the intersecting needs of a broad segment of the population that the discipline of architecture has traditionally overlooked: people of different ages,...

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2024 Mar 29

Reducing Disparities Through Integration of Medical and Social Care--Center for Bioethics

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

Join us for the March session of the Organizational Ethics Consortia on reducing disparities through integration of medical and social care. Hospitals, ACOs, health plans, professional societies, and other health-related organizations are increasingly dealing with the ethical dimensions of policies, procedures, resource allocation decisions, social movements and more. This consortia series provides a forum for local, national, and international discussion of organizational-level ethical issues and processes to address them, with the aim of cultivating a learning community of...

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2024 Mar 30

Peabody Museum Tours by Harvard Students

Repeats every week on Sunday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 21 2024 except Fri Nov 24 2023, Sat Nov 25 2023, Sun Nov 26 2023.
(All day)

Location: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?

Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes. Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.

Offered on: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am
Regular museum admission...

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2024 Mar 30

U.S. Citizenship Course

Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Apr 13 2024 .
10:30am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam with art at the Harvard Art Museums!

In partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program, the Harvard Art Museums are pleased to offer a free 10-week course that will prepare students to answer the exam’s 100 civics questions and offer instruction to improve their English language skills.

Special interactive tours of the American art galleries, led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, will deepen the lessons taught by St. Mark’s experienced and trained teachers in one of our museum classrooms. The...

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2024 Mar 31

Peabody Museum Tours by Harvard Students

(All day)

Location: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?

Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes. Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.

Offered on: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am
Regular museum admission...

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2024 Mar 31

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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2024 Mar 31

Touch Tour: Ancient Mesopotamia

Repeats every week every Sunday until Wed Apr 24 2024 except Sun Dec 10 2023, Sun Dec 17 2023, Sun Dec 24 2023, Sun Dec 31 2023, Sun Jan 07 2024, Sun Jan 14 2024, Sun Jan 21 2024, Sun Jan 28 2024, Sun Mar 10 2024, Sun Mar 17 2024.
1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Available for blind and visually impaired visitors, this tour explores the From Stone to Silicone exhibition featuring ancient Mesopotamia. Touchable replicas are coupled with description to spark discussion about the sculpted art in the Assyrian palace of King Ashurnasirpal II.

Registration required at least one week in advance. Service animals are welcome.
Also available by appointment select Monday–Fridays from 2:00pm–3:00pm or 3:00pm–4:00pm.

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2024 Apr 01

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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2024 Apr 02

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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